neck. he carries me into the basement of his home. it was jaw dropping, just chilling. they started digging and they found women s clothing. it was just escalating, escalating. there were so many victims, weren t there? there were. there still are. until this guy is no longer in existence, i will carry this fight. hello and welcome to dateline. shannon dreamed big and wanted to become a supreme court justice. in college she scored a prestigious internment at former president jimmy carter s foundation. suddenly she vanished. detectives had a suspect in their sights but it would take years and the revelation of a terrific tale to unravel the mystery of shannon s disappearance. here is dennis murphy with shannon s story. the portraits, the snapshots, the videos, i documented her life. the photographer dad, the camera professional who captured every moment of his daughter s life. she loved life. she wanted to do everything. these parents didn t know back
shannon was midway through her sophomore year at emory university in atlanta. monique answered the call at their childhood home in miami, and on the other end of the line was athena, her sister s college roommate. athena was very distraught, and was asking me frantically if if i had heard or spoken from shannon. shannon hadn t been seen or heard from in more than a day. now, are you starting to do the calculation, even at the age of 13, that this is trouble? i was. i knew immediately that that something was terribly wrong. monique hung up with the roommate and made a few calls of her own. i immediately called my godmother, who was living in atlanta, asked her if she had heard from shannon. she had not. i called my aunt that also lived there. she had not heard from shannon. monique was gripped with fear. she called her grandparents, and her grandfather came to pick her up. monique s dad, luis, was at work, photographing a baptism,
Family friends that apparently had an infatuation with us as young girls. and the recovery for her, it s going to be i think a long road. because it was somebody that she trusted so very much that had abducted her and completely put a distrust in her, or in him now. and the fact that she has her family is gone now, and she just has her dad, i think it s going to be a long road to recovery. how does it affect your ability to trust people again. and to hold down normal relationships, perhaps, with men as you get older. i think it all depends upon what your early childhood was like. for me, i did not have a very good upbringing, i was sexually and physically abused by my godmother s husband.
Relationships, perhaps, with men as you get older. i think it all depends upon what your early childhood was like. for me, i did not have a very good upbringing, i was sexually and physically abused by my godmother s husband. and the only stable relationship that i had with a male was with my older brother who was six years older than me. so for me, the trust factor was very difficult because of the lack of relationships. through therapy and through the love of my foster family, i was able to get to a point where i could trust members of the opposite sex. my foster brothers, my foster father, different things like that, and eventually i had boyfriends, i got married, had children, i was able to learn how to trust again. i m hoping that hannah will be able to get to that point.
Relationships, perhaps, with men as you get older. i think it all depends upon what your early childhood was like. for me, i did not have a very good upbringing, i was sexually and physically abused by my godmother s husband. and the only stable relationship that i had with a male was with my older brother who was six years older than me. so for me, the trust factor was very difficult because of the lack of relationships. through therapy and through the love of my foster family, i was able to get to a point where i could trust members of the opposite sex. my foster brothers, my foster father, different things like that, and eventually i had boyfriends, i got married, had children, i was able to learn how to trust again. i m hoping that hannah will be able to get to that point. what kind of lessons can be